Arin Arbus (United States) 

Director

Houston Grand Opera debut

About the Artist: Arbus is associate artistic director of Theatre for A New Audience, an off-Broadway classical company in New York City, for which she directed Macbeth, Measure for Measure (Lortel Nomination for Best Revival), and Othello (six Lortel nominations). In 2009, The New York Times described Arbus as "the most gifted new director to emerge this year." She was a Playwrights Horizons directing resident, a Williamstown Workshop Directing Corps member, a member of Soho Rep.’s Writer/Director Lab, and is a Drama League Directing fellow and a 2008 Princess Grace Award recipient. Arbus has directed at the Intiman, Hangar, Storm, and Working theaters; Theatre Outlet; FringeNYC; HERE Arts Center; The Juilliard School; The New School for Drama; and Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop. In association with Rehabilitation through the Arts, she also leads a theatre company of inmates at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, a medium- security prison in upstate New York. In spring 2012, Arbus will direct The Taming of the Shrew for Theatre for a New Audience.